Name

glValidateProgram — validate a program object

C Specification

void glValidateProgram(

GLuint program);

Parameters

program

Specifies the handle of the program object to
be validated.

Description

glValidateProgram checks to see
whether the executables contained in
program can execute given the current
OpenGL state. The information generated by the validation
process will be stored in program's
information log. The validation information may consist of an
empty string, or it may be a string containing information about
how the current program object interacts with the rest of
current OpenGL state. This provides a way for OpenGL
implementers to convey more information about why the current
program is inefficient, suboptimal, failing to execute, and so
on.

The status of the validation operation will be stored as
part of the program object's state. This value will be set to
GL_TRUE if the validation succeeded, and
GL_FALSE otherwise. It can be queried by
calling
glGetProgramiv
with arguments program and
GL_VALIDATE_STATUS. If validation is
successful, program is guaranteed to
execute given the current state. Otherwise,
program is guaranteed to not execute.

This function is typically useful only during application
development. The informational string stored in the information
log is completely implementation dependent; therefore, an
application should not expect different OpenGL implementations
to produce identical information strings.

Notes

This function mimics the validation operation that OpenGL
implementations must perform when rendering commands are issued
while programmable shaders are part of current state. The error
GL_INVALID_OPERATION will be generated by
glDrawArrays or
glDrawElements
if any two active samplers in the current program
object are of different types, but refer to the same
texture image unit.

It may be difficult or cause a performance degradation for
applications to catch these errors when rendering commands are
issued. Therefore, applications are advised to make calls to
glValidateProgram to detect these issues
during application development.

Errors

GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if
program is not a value generated by
OpenGL.